Book Review: A Future Spacefaring Society
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
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Paul Damphousse, Executive Director of the National Space Society, was interviewed on The Space Show on January 6, 2013. The program is archived here —...
…The Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center. More information about this news at Spaceflight Now. Your thoughts? Feel free to share them in the comments....
The original Disembodied Dave Scott Head as seen on TV, flanked by a nonplussed John Young and Charlie Duke, April 1972. Photo by Retro Space...
Single Camera: Grasshopper 40-Meter Test Flight 12/17/12 SpaceX reports: Grasshopper takes a 12-story leap towards full and rapid rocket reusability in a test flight conducted...
From Sunday, February 24 through Tuesday, February 26, 2013, the National Space Society and the Space Exploration Alliance will be holding the annual grassroots visit...
The New York Daily News published this story on December 13, 2012. The story quotes two National Space Society Directors: Mark Hopkins and Al Globus....
Category: Non-Fiction Reviewed by: Steve Adamczyk Title: Tragedy and Triumph in Orbit: The Eighties and Early Nineties Author: Ben Evans NSS Amazon link for this...
NASA announced December 10th the next step in its plan to launch American astronauts from U.S. soil, selecting three companies to conduct activities under contracts...
This new image of the Earth at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite over...
40 years ago, the last Apollo moon mission lifted off, carrying Gene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt and Ron Evans to Taurus Littrow. Here’s great launch...
Former NASA Executives Lead the Company Washington, D.C. (December 6, 2012) – On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 17,...
2012 was the year we conquered Mars again. JPL/NASA photo, taken from the Curiosity Rover. Despite the absence of the space shuttle, space in 2012...
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